Dear Colleague:

The University of Melbourne has launched a new "Master of Engineering in
Distributed Computing (MEDC)" degree program. This new course program has been
designed to:
* provide expertise for developing service-oriented, enterprise computing
systems and applications that need to operate in wired/wireless network
environments
* promote the utilisation of industry standard distributed computing
technologies such as J2EE and .NET
* focus on highly specialised distributed computing topics such as
distributed systems, cluster and grid computing, distributed algorithms, mobile
systems programming, sensor networks and Web services
* emphasise the design and development of distributed computing technologies
and their application in e-Science or e-Business areas through a compulsory
team-based project, and
* be taught with a combination of academic and practitioners input.
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An article that appeared in The Age puts our new program nicely in perspective:
Please browse at: http://theage.com.au/articles/2005/05/02/1114886287111.html

For further details on the course and admission, please see:
http://www.eng.unimelb.edu.au/courses/pgrad/courses/grad_medc.html
http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/courses/mbc/medc.html

Please share info about this new Distributed Computing degree offering at
Melbourne University with those interested.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Cheers
Raj